The same technology that is used to combat crime, reduce customer churn, identify part failures in manufacturing and reduce the mortality rates of cardiac victims, is being served up this year at the U.S. Open Tennis Championships .
As John McEnroe would exclaim, rather... [Continue Reading]

Organizations today only half-listen to their customers. Sort of like a teenager only half-listens when a parent asks him/her to take out the trash or walk the dog.
Sure organizations might hear a customer complaint or praise of a new product, but do they really... [Continue Reading]

There’s an old saying that everything is bigger in Texas, and the recent Midsize Enterprise Summit (MES) was no exception. This year’s show, held at the Gaylord Texan Resort in Dallas last month, featured a stellar lineup of vendors, analysts and the best IT leaders in the midmarket. And even though I didn’t play, the golf course... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Mark Rolfe, FCCA, Leader - Financial Performance Management, IBM Business Analytics
Non-financial reporting, such as Sustainability and CSR reporting, is an area of reporting that has expanded substantially in recent years.
Disclosure can be either mandatory or voluntary. Mandatory sustainability disclosures can occur... [Continue Reading]

Building your own Analytics Center of Excellence (ACE) has never been easier, especially when you have the guidance from IBM Solution Services.
But first you ask, why analytics & a center of excellence?
Well, that's easy. 97.3 percent of those at the master level of AQ, or Analytics Quotient, maturity have an analytics... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Basiruddin Syed, product marketing manager, IBM Social Media Analytics.
In the weeks leading up to the holidays, delivery services and postal carriers have been working diligently to get packages to exactly the right address on time. Their efficiency is boosted by sophisticated logistics operations and a good system of postal... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Craig Hayman, General Manager, IBM Industry Solutions.
Our CEO, Ginni Rometty, has been speaking recently about data and how it represents the natural resource of the 21 st century. Not a natural resource, but the natural resource, bar none. The one difference is that unlike other natural resources, data is scarily unlimited.... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Jason Salares, Team Lead, Business Intelligence and Advanced Analytics Demos
Watch Jason's demos of IBM Concert, Project Neo and more in the Business Analytics keynote at IBM Information On Demand 2013. View at http://bit.ly/1cHHXTE
Of all the jobs I've had in my life - from sandwich... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Tina Groves, Big Data Product Strategist for Business Intelligence.
A common mistake when analyzing operational data is double counting . By operational data, I mean data which contains redundancies and dependencies which haven’t been normalized -- in other words, data commonly found in Excel extracts or application... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from John M. Kamensky, a senior fellow at The IBM Center for the Business of Government in Washington, DC.
It is becoming clear that fiscal austerity will likely be a long-term condition facing US states and localities . As a result, the traditional approaches to dealing with budget cuts – such as across-the-board... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Shawn Parks, Market Manager, Predictive and Business Intelligence Solution Marketing, IBM.
Follow Shawn on twitter: @smparks_mktg
I want to dispel one of the biggest myths I run into when I tell people I’ve worked on projects with law enforcement agencies for predictive policing. That is the image of an officer,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post by Paul Dobbs, Global Lead Consultant, IBM Risk Analytics.
On September 17, the IBM Banking Summit 2013 , will place at the Marriott Marquis in New York City.
You will have an opportunity to hear from IBM experts as well as industry influencers such as Brett King, financial advisor and author, and David O’Connell,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from T. Alan Keahey, PhD
Dr. T. Alan Keahey has played a leading role in the research and development of highly innovative information visualization systems for close to 20 years. His experience spans a wide range of environments including national labs research scientist, research director at a Lucent Bell Labs spin off and... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Murali Prakash, Product Marketing Manager, IBM Business Analytics
IBM has announced a new version of IBM SPSS Statistics software , with features that provide the most advanced analytics techniques to a broader group of business users, statisticians, analysts and researchers, even when they are working from mobile devices.
... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Frank van Ham, Master Inventor, Information Visualization and Visual Interaction Expert
Many years ago I pursued a Computer Science PhD by trying to find better ways to give people insight in the structure of large networks. With large network data, I mean data that describes connections between entities. You might... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Marygrace Bateman, Market Manager, IBM Business Analytics
Follow Marygrace on Twitter: @bateman_mg
It’s a bit ironic that my job is to espouse the importance of personalizing the customer experience and the imperative of moving away from the spray and pray marketing approach to targeting individuals. Sadly,... [Continue Reading]

Guest post from Noah Iliinsky, Advanced Visualization Expert, IBM Center for Advanced Visualization
This is the first of a series of five posts discussing the four pillars of successful visualizations. In this article I’ll introduce the four pillars and discuss why they’re in the order they’re in; and then in subsequent... [Continue Reading]

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